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Jan. 13 2020 In the past, agriculture was a vocation learned mainly through family ties. However, little headway has been made to create practical, hands-on learning opportunities for individuals from non-ag backgrounds
Nov. 27 2019 Management-Intensive grazing (MiG) has become a commonplace practice among many livestock producers
Sept. 5 2019 When it comes to prepping for winter survival and spring regrowth of forages, fall is the most important among the four seasons
May 22 2019 Making hay is an expensive and time-consuming process, said grazing consultant Jim Gerrish. The price of equipment, fuel, labor, and fertilizer continues to rise, while the value of animal products remain...
March 18 2019 When ranching at 7,200 feet above sea level, hay is a winter necessity. In order to find ways to reduce the costs associated with feeding harvested feed, one must get creative
Feb. 21 2019 Grazing livestock in Northern regions where winters are long and harsh can prove challenging. For some producers, bale grazing has become a cost-effective, time-saving strategy to break past the pasto
Jan. 14 2019 In February, Ranch Management Consultants (RMC) will host a Ranching for Profit (RFP) School in Burlington, Vt
Nov. 27 2018 Back in late July, an energized and eclectic group of 22 Australian producers stepped off a plane in Dallas, Texas, to embark on a 3,500-plus mile, three-week learning journey across the United States
Sept. 4 2018 The author is a freelance writer from Bozeman, Mont., and has her own communications business, Cowpunch Creative. Jesse BussardRecently, an Australian company, Maia Technology, released a new free grazing...
April 30 2018 In late January, ranchers and rangeland researchers gathered together in Nevada for the Society for Range Management’s (SRM) 71st Annual Meeting
March 15 2018 With spring soon upon us, March is the perfect time to revisit or begin a grazing plan and develop strategies to manage new forage growth
Feb. 15 2018 Ranchers in Montana and surrounding areas were hit with an unprecedented drought in 2017. For many, it was the second year in a row of such dire conditions
Jan. 15 2018 Producers interested in improving forage quality and pasture productivity should consider frost-seeding clovers into existing stands as an inexpensive option to reach their goals
Nov. 27 2017 Christine Su, co-founder of PastureMap, a mobile cloud-based grazing app for ranchers, said it’s her company’s mission to help farmers and ranchers be more profitable while building healthy...
Aug. 31 2017 A growing trend of obesity and associated metabolic disorders are raising the horse industry’s need for alternative forage sources
April 30 2017 As we discussed in the March 2017 column, renovating a toxic fescue pasture to beneficial endophyte varieties is no small feat
March 1 2017 Thinking of renovating toxic fescue pastures in 2017? Beneficial endophyte fescue varieties offer cattle producers in the Fescue Belt an effective forage option to collectively improve pasture forage
Feb. 24 2017 Over the past few years, the use of cover crops for grazing has gained popularity among livestock producers, in part, due to an expanded focus on soil health in row crop farming
Feb. 1 2017 This past October, Jim Gerrish put on a three-day whirlwind tour of soil health workshops encompassing three cities across western Montana
Jan. 26 2017 Cattle and other livestock have long shared the range with greater sage-grouse. However, as populations of the bird are diminishing across the West, ranchers are not standing idle
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